Because the song My Way became a global hit, Claude François Junior made a documentary about it. The artist’s son Claude François revealed how this title, first written in French – As per usual – almost never saw the light of day.
My Way is firstly the title of a song. Now, it is also the title of a documentary which, like a biopic, tells her story. Available on myCanal, this documentary film, co-produced by Claude François Junior, the eldest son of the artist of the same name, gave the opportunity to the man nicknamed Coco (son of Isabelle Forêt and brother of Marc , the couple’s second son, long hidden from the public) to answer the questions of our colleagues from Point of view. If the businessman then evokes the destiny of the famous song – perhaps to pay further homage to his late father -, he especially returns to its origins, and reveals that it almost never saw the light of day for a quite surprising reason.
“He doesn’t pay attention“: Claude François Junior recounts how his father almost missed out on the hit As per usual
Unlike the majority of American hits revisited in the French style, My Way is first a blue white red hit which was later adapted into English. “Originally, there was Jacques Revaux who composed, alone in his hotel room, four songs before presenting them to several performers, including my father“, says Claude François Junior. “He doesn’t pay attention to it. Unlike Richard Anthony and Johnny Hallyday who made two hits (Plant a tree et My son). Shortly after, Dad, envious, came across him and begged for one… forgetting that he had refused his proposals!“, he continues, describing a trait of the artist’s personality which seems to come up regularly.
Of As per usual has My Waythe story of a hit
“During a summer afternoon in 1967 in Dannemois, they created As per usualwhich comes out the following fall. By comparing the model to the final version, we can see the changes made by the heightened sensitivity of my father, who has just separated from France Gall. When he sang it for the first time on television, Paul Anka was at the same time in the office of the co-editor, Gilbert Marouani. Luckily, he’s already heard it and loves it. He immediately acquired the rights and took it with him to the United States. My Way was born“, concludes Claude François Junior before recounting how proud his father had been”upon learning that Franck Sinatra was going to record it“.
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